[thenodnarb]

well I've been trying to pound it out. It is REALLY stuck in there. I've had to pound out squibs before in a .45 and it was difficult but not THIS difficult. I even tried from the muzzle carefully so as not to damage the crown. I realized after trying a few times from either direction that there is obviously a bullet 3" past the chamber but there is also an obstruction about 3" from the end of the chamber as well. It COULD be just the several cleaning patches I ran down from either end trying not to mar the barrel, but worst case it could be two squibs. I think I would have noticed the first squib.

Crap. My only hope now is that the charge was so light that the carrier key is the only victim. Hope I didn't fubar my barrel. Its pretty heavy and doesn't look bulged but ya never know.

But seriously this thing wont budge. Currently I'm trying to use a cleaning rod from a mosin nagant. I've already ruined the rod a bit from pounding but I can sacrifice a cleaning rod for my barrel. The rod fits the bore pretty well but is loose enough to fit a patch around the end.
This really sucks. Any help on ideas would be appreciated. Is there any other way to get this thing out? Could a gunsmith get it out properly? What technique would he use?

EDIT: the more I think about this and the incident leading up to the failure, the more I think there could be several bullets in the bore. I was experimenting with some 220grain nosler partitions just prior to shooting this load. It was only around 6 grains of 2400 behind the 220grain nosler bullet. This load had several issues: I would get a failure to eject(a stovepipe), and the buffer spring made a strange noise. I cannot definitively recall rounds impacting on target with this load.
There is about a 6 or 8" long section of the barrel between the obstructions. They could be just lined right up in there back to back, expanded all to hell! I'm lucky to be unscathed! I guess all the pressure from these really light loads were venting out the gas tube! This could explain the strange noise in the buffer(overgassing).

So if I have 4 or 5 bullets lined up in the bore, what kind of gunsmith am I going to have to find that can remove such a cluster*%&^? Pounding them out has got to be out. Perhaps a big press, or drilling them out somehow?